While I do agree that the deal with ebooks vs libraries is utter bullshit, I also feel like the IA unnecessarily burned far too much money on that. The US cour

While I do agree that the deal with ebooks vs libraries is utter bullshit, I also feel like the IA unnecessarily burned far too much money on that. The US courts have consistently supported copyright owners when they claim that ebooks are magically different from physical books, so it was reasonable to predict a loss: they should have started with a very small set of books that they could have afforded to lose with (so it became mostly legal costs). Instead they set themselves up for a huge civil penalty as well. Again, I think the “ebooks are magically different from physical books” claims are nonsense, but I feel the IA self inflicted an unnecessarily high penalty in a case they were unlikely to win.